Bliss:

Here author describes that goddess of prosperity is blissful. Yes, Life is all about your outlook towards it and on the contrarily happiness lies inside you. As Rajneesh once said, “Pleasure is momentary, of time, for the time being; bliss is non-temporal, timeless. Pleasure begins and ends; bliss abides forever. Pleasure comes and goes; bliss never comes, never goes — it is already there in the innermost core of your being. Pleasure has to be snatched away from the other; you become either a beggar or a thief. Bliss makes you a master. Bliss is not something that you invent but something that you discover. Bliss is your innermost nature. It has been there since the very beginning, you just have not looked at it, you have taken it for granted. You don’t look inwards. This is the only misery of man: that he goes on looking outwards, seeking and searching. And you cannot find it in the outside because it is not there.” Bliss means exactly cloud nine, walking on the air or extremely happy. It is not just regular happiness we experience. Our happiness still has pleasure element. Bliss is beyond pleasure,joy and happiness.There is a difference between Pleasure – ??? – Physiological level, Joy- ?????- Spiritual level, Happiness- ???-Psychological level, Bliss – ????????- Totality.What do we experience when we spend time earning money? Is your earning gives you pleasure, happiness, joy or bliss? Goddess of wealth talks about bliss. But, do we have that?

Content:

Goddess Lakshmi is contended and makes her worshippers contended. Wait a minute! In last couple of shloks, Goddess Lakshmi was making us wealthy and now contended. How come we get wealth while contended? That is the beauty of Shri Suktam. It explains us about the real treasure of life. Yes, A blissful life.

Lotus:

Why Lotus? Well, Lotus is always associated with Shri-Lakshmi because of purity and spiritual power. Lotus teaches us how it is rooted in the mud but blossoming above the water and still completely uncontaminated by the mud. It is an excellent example of spiritual perfection and authority which rises above global contamination. The lotus also symbolizes the fertile growth of organic life, as the world is continually reborn on a lotus growing out of Vishnu’s navel. Goddess wants to maintain our morales and principles while living in contaminated world. Good brings good and bad brings bad but to bring good in bad is difficult as well as divine. Read more here for Why do we consider The Lotus special?

Balanced life:

The punch line in this whole shlok is following,� Goddess makes their worshippers contented and like Lotus.” That means, Goddess wants us to have contented life while maintaining our productivity. Why it is that? Because, being contented and not productive means making our life miserable. It also creates a puzzle that the limit of prosperity we needed lies in getting contented and have a blissful life. I agree with the author that greed is a grave.

My Learnings:

1) We should live a balanced life with proper content and productivity.

2) Presence of Blissful moments in life� is the right measurement of wealth.

~ Taral Sharma